We either have a free, open and anonymous internet… or a dystopian identity-required-at-every-point-of-access, heavily moderated, hellscape.

Is your argument that kids spaces should be free and open spaces, because the only alternative is everything has to be age gated? If not, feel free to expand on what this has anything to do with how a service advertised to kids shouldn’t be treated differently than non kid-oriented services.

Cool, gotta get that Nazi propaganda into the countries smart enough to ban that shit, wouldn’t want people to think there was any sense left in the white house.

That would require them to actually think at all, it makes much more sense to expect the parent to monitor the child’s activity constantly and never let them do anything on the Internet unsupervised. They will also then complain years later about helicopter parents not giving them any freedom

Roblox isn’t a daycare. It isn’t a school. It isn’t marketed to have any responsible adults online per number of players.

But it’s a platform marketed towards children, takes a cut of the shovelware that other kids make, and didn’t bother policing their platform seriously until recently. The fact that it’s a kids game that’s marketed to kids and they go after people reporting on the abuses that they let run rampant on their platform is just mental to me. I really hope Roblox gets taken to the cleaners for how they actively have fucked around and let their platform get to where it is.

“This isn’t a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It’s the opposite of that. It’s taking something that worked and making it worse. Is there even a goal here beyond ‘generating content?’”

The Sloptya Nadella way

Every one of them probably wants a little (saint) Island of their own

I’m still in the “wow” phase, marveled by the reasoning and information that it can give me, and just started testing some programming assistance which, with a few simple examples seems to be fine (using free models for testing).

AI is fine with simple programming tasks, and I use it regularly to do a lot of basic blocking out of functions when I’m trying to get something working quickly. But once I get into a specialty or niche it just shits the bed.

For example, my job uses oracle OCI to host a lot of stuff, and I’ve been working on deployment automation. The AI will regularly invent shit out of whole cloth even knowing what framework I’m using, my normal style conventions, and a directive to validate all provided commands. I have literally had the stupid fuck invent a command out of thin air, then correct me after I tell it the command didn’t work about how that command didn’t exist and I needed to use some other command that doesn’t exist instead, or it gives me a wrong parameter list or something.

Hell, even in much more common AD management tasks it still makes shit up. Like, basic MS admin work is still too much for the AI to do in its own.

Does this mean I can finally remap key combos for system shit in Firefox? Ctrl-J no longer opens downloads on my Linux box, which is fucking stupid

Blowing their load already I see. AI can’t even automate individual tasks I do, it’s not going to do shit to my job in 2 years

The meme is unironically true though. I hate the candidates that the dnc puts forward, but I hate the opposition more. 2016 and 2024 kinda shows how the meme is unfortunately rather accurate, and I heard plenty of people advocating for not voting for Kamala because of stances that trump was objectively worse on.

Yet entirely expected. “Every accusation is a confession” has been a common trope for the Republican party for decades at this point for a reason.